by Dahlia Rodriguez

Starting Point

Well, here we are . After several attemps for launching a blog, I’m finally going ahead. Based on the previous posts made ​​in a previous essay on blogspot, this blog is now launched on wordpress.

Like the meaning of “hopscotch”, this blog will be place where I can play with crafts and nature. Two passions that I´m (re)discovering since I moved to Portugal in 2010. A lovely country where you can easily find tradition in harmony with innovation.

I said re-discovered because since I was a child, knitting, sewing, embroidering, trecking, and nature where already in my mind as beautiful things.

I have already several posts in mind, but it is always better not run to much. So let me just, thank my friend for this gift. She does not know, but reading day after day this sentence helped me to start this adventure.

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musart research lab

When a woman meets a group of women, all of them creative, only good things can result from this experience. It´s the case of the photographer Margaret Courtney-Clarke and her photo documentary about the art of Ndebele women. Based in West Africa, these women use vernacular art to enhance traditional architecture by painting them by […]

Find here a very interesting document on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Gender published by UNESCO. In the publication, gender disparities and women´s role in intangible cultural heritage transmission are raised from a very interesting perspective. Recognising inequality suffered by women but at the same time, enhancing the value of cultural heritage contribution to women´s role in […]

CRAFTIVISM

Craftivism is a form of activism addressing social issues or causes. With this Lab, I wanted to promote and share information about artisan and craftivists promoting social change and collective empowerment. Image: A Woman's Work is Never Done' by Elisa Bennett.